Shirley News

Suffolk County plans to spray pesticide Thursday night on parts of Fire Island and southern Brookhaven Town in an effort to control mosquitoes, which spread West Nile virus.

Shirley It's one of Long Island's most successful, and moving, efforts against breast cancer.

Two teenagers found hiding under a storage container were charged with attempting to rob a Shirley restaurant, Suffolk police said Thursday.

Store owner takes pity on robber June 3: A deli owner in Shirley, N.Y., takes out a gun and disarms a bat-wielding thief.

Here's a great story about a sympathetic small-business owner who took pity on a wannabe-robber. Mohammad "Mo" Sohail, who operates a convenience store in Shirley, N.Y. , is being hailed by his customers as a man of compassion.

A New York convenience store owner who made headlines after showing mercy on a would-be robber has been accused of selling drug paraphernalia.

The hero Long Island deli owner hailed as compassionate after he showed mercy to a would-be robber by giving him $40 and a loaf of bread has been busted for selling illegal drug paraphernalia, officials said today.

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - A Long Island convenience store owner confronted by a bat-wielding would-be robber said he decided to show mercy on the man after he collapsed in tears claiming he was only committing the crime to support his starving family.

Jun 2, 2009 7:19 pm US/Central SHIRLEY, N.Y. Shirley, N.Y. deli owner Mohammed Sohail, top, turns tide on would-be crook during bizarre attemped robbery that you have to see to believe.

A man and a woman who called a taxi to take them home after a night of boozing at a trendy Southampton club were critically injured early yesterday when their cab collided with a car driven by a drunken teen, police said.

Police in Suffolk County say a couple was arrested after they took their 5-year-old son along on a drug buy.

"To Inform & Delight: The World of Milton Glaser" may leave you with the impression that the spirit of modern New York was conjured out of thin air by its subject, the celebrated graphic designer who is about to turn 80.

Three gunmen stormed into a Shirley home early Wednesday, threatened residents and fled with undisclosed items, police said.

The county isn'tA standing down on standing water, especially on its roads. The Suffolk County Department of Public Works has hired Hauppauge-based VHB Engineering , Surveying and Landscape Architecture for the design of sidewalks and drainage improvement along William Floyd Parkway in Mastic and Shirley.

Brookhaven Town officials say the clear-cutting of more than 20 acres of trees around Calabro Airport was intended to make the facility's runways safer, but the work has sparked anger - and demands for new trees - from residents who live near the airport.

Virtually the entire leadership of the nation's Roman Catholic Church gathered at St.

Robert Baranaskas, a former owner of Ancient Age distillery - which became Buffalo Trace Distillery in 1992 - was killed Sunday when his World War II-era fighter plane crashed off Long Island.

Robert Baranaskas, 61, of Northport died when his single-engine plane crashed into waters off the coast of Mastic Beach on Sunday.

MASTIC A project to enhance traffic flow, reduce gridlock and improve safety along a nearly two-mile stretch of Montauk Highway in Shirley and Mastic has begun.

Suffolk County police say the pilot of a World War II-era airplane has died in a crash in the water off Long Island 's Smith Point Beach in the town of Shirley.